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Jacques Kallis vs Imran Khan

Better cricketer ?

  • Kallis

    Votes: 17 27.4%

  • Imran

    Votes: 45 72.6%
  • Total voters
    62
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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
Kallis is not a better bowler than Sobers.

Removing minnows makes that clear but also Sobers was a proper 4th bowler in an attack with the over load and wickets to show for. Kallis was a 5/6th bowler.

Imran was a proper lower order bat so both he and Sobers are notably ahead of Kallis.
 
trundler

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subshakerz said:
Kallis is not a better bowler than Sobers.

Removing minnows makes that clear but also Sobers was a proper 4th bowler in an attack with the over load and wickets to show for. Kallis was a 5/6th bowler.

Imran was a proper lower order bat so both he and Sobers are notably ahead of Kallis.
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Miller and Hadlee too.
 
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_00_deathscar

International Regular
subshakerz said:
Kallis is not a better bowler than Sobers.

Removing minnows makes that clear but also Sobers was a proper 4th bowler in an attack with the over load and wickets to show for. Kallis was a 5/6th bowler.

Imran was a proper lower order bat so both he and Sobers are notably ahead of Kallis.
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Kallis wasn’t a 5th/6th bowler for the majority of his career, only towards the end. And he wasn’t a 6th bowler either
 
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Jumno

First Class Debutant
Kallis the far superior batsman

However Imran the superior bowler and leader

It's a close call, however I think for an all rounder, bowling is important

Just like Flintoff edges it because he was the better bowler than stokes

I would go for Imran
 
Chin Music

Chin Music

State Vice-Captain
Only just found this thread. I always felt that Kallis was slightly undervalued as a batsman but a fair bit overrated as a bowler. He actually could play all the shots if he wanted to, he just didn't much of the time and dug in. Never rated his bowling that highly. Often hid the ball a foot outside off stump against good teams and was able to fill his boots v Bang & Zim. Still a fine achievement to be not far short of 300 wickets but that was testament to his longevity.

Roughly speaking Imran is in the same class as a bowler that Kallis was as a batter but that in their secondary discipline, to me Imran was a better batter than Kallis was a bowler.
 
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Coronis said:
Better screenshot this post.
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This is pretty consistent with my position that Kallis is a moderate upgrade on Frank Worrell as an AR. I just reject the copium around his limitations. He didn't play many outstanding counter attacking innings and had pretty good support. That's ok though, still a great batsman. Batted top 4 in a tough place for batsmen.
 
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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
trundler said:
This is pretty consistent with my position that Kallis is a moderate upgrade on Frank Worrell as an AR. I just reject the copium around his limitations. He didn't play many outstanding counter attacking innings and had pretty good support. That's ok though, still a great batsman. Batted top 4 in a tough place for batsmen.
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Kallis was a regular great bat but was outside the top 20 of all-time IMO.
 
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